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Re: accuracy of home pregancy tests
From: Liz (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:13:56 -0500 (CDT)
Just a note - different home pregnancy tests have different sensitivity
levels to the hormones -- there is a site somewhere on teh net (I am so
sorry I don't know the site address) that lists which are the most
sensitive. I believe that the CVS brand is fairly sensitive. Most of
the name brand ones that you pay more for that should be highly
sensitive are not!
At Fri, 25 Aug 2000, R. Daniel Braun, MD wrote:
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>At Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Marci wrote:
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>>a few years ago I had an ectopic pregnancy. Tonight I started having
>>similar soreness that I had experienced with that. I took a hpt just to
>>be sure but not really thinking that I was pregnant...I just had a baby
>>6 months ago and I am breastfeeding. Well, anyway, I took the test and
>>there was a second line so faint I could barely see it. I was just
>>wondering what the accuracy of hpt are and if there is that faint of
>>line could it mean that I am really pregnant?
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>Possibly. Sometimes the faint line means that there is avery low level
>of HCG, sometimes not. In the absence of pain or bleeding, repeat the
>test in 48 hours if the line is obviously apparent then it is positive.
>If line is stil faint, contact your Physician. If line is absent then
>test is negative.
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>RDB
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>>Thanks for any input!
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>R.Daniel Braun, MD FACOG FOG
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